Today everyone knows somebody who tinkers, snips, hammers, shapes or fuses something together in a little workshop. If you’re a maker yourself, maybe you’re making jewelry or personalized stationery for a wedding maybe you’re assembling furniture from reclaimed barn wood or crafting remote-controlled drones from spare computer parts. If your hobby entails creating something concrete with your hands, then you’re a maker.
If you’re not now a maker, maybe you’re considering becoming one. That is where a maker fair can come in handy.
Maker fairs are where you can take a look at different ways people make matters, from musical instruments to vast landscapes made entirely by masking tape, as seen — artist Danny Scheible created more than 80,000 individual masking tape sculptures such as 2012’s Maker Faire Bay Area in San Francisco.
Maker Faire is possibly the biggest and baddest of the maker occasions, with approximately half a dozen principal fairs and more than a 100 miniature variations around the world.
The 2013 World Maker Faire will be held in New York on September 21 and 22. Maker Fair Rome will be held October 3 to 6.
Photo by Mark Madeo
Art cars are popular at maker fairs, especially Maker Faire Bay Area, where this metal serpent car prowled the landscape in 2013. A number of the artwork cars shown at this event were constructed for the Burning Man festival, which will be a maker event in itself and in 2013 runs from August 26 to September 2 in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
Photo by Becca Henry
Following is a collection of Teddy Ruxpin animatronic teddy bears from the 1980s that maker Sean Hathaway repurposed with Arduino open-source electronic equipment as part of the art installation called “TED (Transformations, Emotional Deconstruction)”. It was showcased at Maker Faire Bay Area in 2013.
Photo by Becca Henry
By August 16 through September 15, 2013, Hand-Eye Supply, a Portland, Oregon, shop that caters to a wide scope of manufacturers, will sponsor a pop-up store and maker event in Los Angeles in Space 15 Twenty, a 2,000-square-foot space run by Urban Outfitters.
In addition to Hand-Eye Supply products for sale, there will be film screenings and workshops about creating, such as a two-day woodworking event with Offerman Woodshop, that will be possessed by Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman.
Offerman Woodshop (the crew is shown here) will present two workshops: one on September 14 about how to put a chunk of tree into a lamp; the other on September 15, on the best way to craft a tree swing.
Also in the pop-up event, on September 6 Craft in America Study Center will display the “Procedure” episode of its PBS series on what makes a person choose a profession in craft in the digital age.
Anything cut using computerized numerical controllers (CNCs) is famous at maker fairs.
Maker Rob Bell created all the parts required for his Zomes (shown here in Maker Faire Bay Area in 2012) on CNC machines. He can compute all the essential geometry and have parts sent to a CNC locally so you can make your own.
Find a 2013 honest:
OC Mini Maker Faire (Irvine, California): August 17
Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire: August 18
Calgary Mini Maker Faire (Canada): September 14
Portland Mini Maker Faire (Oregon): September 14 and 15
Nashville Mini Maker Faire: September 21
Toronto Mini Maker Faire: September 21 and 22
World Maker Faire New York (New York City): September 21 and 22
Find a reasonable around the planet
Inform us: What can you make?
Photo by Mark Madeo
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